#+AUTHOR:Joshua Branson
#+TITLE: Mu4e
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* Mu4e

Mu4e is an emacs email client that seems to work pretty swell.  It is a bit of a hassle to install.  If you want to use it, then you probably need to have a gmail account.  If you have a hotmail or a yahoo account, then you will have a harder time using mu4e.

Mu4e does not get your email.  It does not send your email.  Mu4e is a great tool at searching your email.  It's freakishly bizarre at how fast it can scan your email.

** Getting your Email

Mu4e is so fast, because your email is stored locally in a Maildir.  You need to create a local copy of your email.  To do this you can use isync or offlineimap.  Isync is faster and the developer of offlineimap is creating a new tool that will replace offlineimap.  So use isync.
*** isync
Isync is probably the fastest way to create a maildir.  It can be a bit of a pain to set up.  Google might not let you sync your emails by default.  You need to specify that you want gmail to allow "insecure apps" to access your email.
*** offline imap is probably easier
** Installing mu4e
grr.  Good old compiling it manually.
** online documentation

http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/index.html#SEC_Contents
** mu find "search"
** mu index will update the mu index in the default maildir
